Are otters rodents?

Question

are ferrets rodents? are weasels rodents?

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Answer 1

Otters, Ferrets and Weasels are all in the family Mustelidae. This group also contains mink, badgers, polecats, zorilla, and martens. They are all carnivorous mammals.

Answer 2

Ferrets are very closely related to weasels. They, together with martens, make up the subfamily Mustelinae. Otters make up the subfamily Lutrinae. Skunks make up the subfamily Mephitinae. Badgers (including the wolverine) make up the subfamily Melinae.

These animals are all true carnivores. They are real meat eaters of the order Carnivora, specifically the family Mustelidae, which contains all of those subfamilies and such diverse animals. This family is more closely related to the families containing the bears and raccoons, than it is to the families containing the dogs, cats, and civets.

True carnivores are meat eaters except for the aardwolf and giant panda. Weasels and their kin are very fast and nimble. They will eat anything small enough to eat, and sometimes catch squirrels.

The true carnivores make up three major groups. Weasels, bears, and raccoons make up three families of the bear type. Cats, hyaenas, and civets make up three families of the cat type. Dogs alone make up one family of the dog type.

Rodents make up the order Rodentia. These are not strictly meat eaters. Most of them eat plant material. Some will eat anything they can get into their mouths. They need to gnaw, as their teeth are always growing. The gnawing wears down the teeth. Rodents include the single largest order of mammals, such as rats, mice, jerboas, hamsters, etc. (all rat-like rodents); squirrels, scalytails, prairie dog, marmots, etc. (all squirrel-like rodents); and capybara, coypu, hutias, chinchilla, cane rat, porcupines, cavies, agouti, viscachas, etc. (mostly South American rodents - the porcupines the only not from S. America).

Finally, otters, ferrets, and weasels are true carnivores, not rodents.

Answer 3

Otters, ferrets, and weasels are all mustelids--in the weasel family, along with badgers, wolverines, skunks, etc. They generally have flattenned, wedge-shaped heads and very sharp teeth and eat mostly meat. And they stink, they have musk glands.
Rodents are herbivores characterized by very long blunt front teeth that never stop growing. Rats, mice, voles, capybaras are all rodents.
Rabbits are not rodents, they're in their own family. Among other things, they have no pads on their paws.

Answer 4

Otters, ferrets and weasels are not rodents, they are carnivores. Otters eat fish. Rodents include rabbits, rats, hamsters and capybaras.

Answer 5

Otters are mustilids which are carnivores. Other mustilids include ferrets, weasles, skunks, minks and badgers.

Answer 6

no otters are not rodents they are part of the family the skunk is cause they have a smell to them when u pick them up or something like that cause i remeber at seaworld they told us something about them that they are relatives of the skunks...well i hope this helps

Answer 7

No! They are all members of the Order Carnivora, Family Mustelidae.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mustelidae

Answer 8

weasel are rodents. ferrets are closely related to rodents. and otters are definetly not.

Answer 9

no no no otters are omnivors, ferrets and weasles are carnivores. so otters will have teeth adabpted to eating anything and everything, weasles and ferrets will be like a cat and eat meat.

Answer 10

Maybe!